METALS: The Dark Blue Mountain

Paule Emile LaPointe, chief pilot for
Quebecair Inc., a Canadian bush airline, was making a routine charter
flight in a Douglas DC-3 from Goose Bay, Labrador to Mont Joli, Quebec
one afternoon last June. With him was his copilot, Bill Awatter.
Because the weather was clear, they dropped to about 1,000 feet and
began looking for a Beechcraft that had been lost with two men aboard
earlier this year. Awatter took the controls, and LaPointe concentrated
on ground search.